Builders of Canada from Cartier to Laurier |
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... to the success of this or any other system of Colonial government , you must renounce the habit of telling the colonies that the Colonial is a provisional existence . You must allow them to believe that , without severing the bonds ...
... to the success of this or any other system of Colonial government , you must renounce the habit of telling the colonies that the Colonial is a provisional existence . You must allow them to believe that , without severing the bonds ...
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34 psl. - ... sketches of them all, after his fashion, and then, landing at Vera Cruz, journeyed inland to the city of Mexico. On his return he made his way to Panama. Here, more than two centuries and a half ago, his bold and active mind conceived the plan of a ship-canal across the isthmus, "by which," he says, "the voyage to the South Sea would be shortened by more than fifteen hundred leagues.
Bibliografinė informacija
| Pavadinimas | Builders of Canada from Cartier to Laurier |
| Autorius | Agnes Maule Machar |
| Redaktorius | Thomas Guthrie Marquis |
| Leidėjas | John C. Winston Company, 1903 |
| Originalas iš | Niujorko viešoji biblioteka |
| Pakeista skaitmenine forma | 15 birželio 2007 |
| Ilgis | 578 psl. |
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